I see you're one of the people I worked with that liked classifying things like "our A/B test says the red button converts better" or "we should let the users m

I see you're one of the people I worked with that liked classifying things like "our A/B test says the red button converts better" or "we should let the users message each other" as Research. CRUD app #548 isn't research in my book, unless you're doing something you can actually publish papers about with some innovation. Even in "basic UX" it is possible to do research, but most people are making a button, not researching.